Improved washing-machine



@uiten i tstts @anni @Hire LEWIS VA'UGHAN, 0F RAPIDS0'H1'0.

Letters Patent No. 72,132, dated December 10, 1867.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

'1.0 ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that I, LEWIS VAUGIIAN, of Rapids, in the county of Portage, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, -making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view.

Figure 2 is a. top view.

Figure 3 is a. vertical transverse section in the direction of the line maa, fig. 2.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the different viewspresented.

In the drawings, A represents the tub or case, which may be of any desired shape and size, and in which isarr'anged the apparatus foi` rubbing the clothes. B represents an adjustable bottom screwed .in the tub, and

C a corrugated rubber or roller, which is supported by the shaft a. Fis the crank, by means of which the i machine is operated, by rst giving motion to the wheel D, whichgears into the pinion E, on theshaft of the roller C. The adjustable bottom B is supported in place by means of the cleats b, at each side of the machine, as shown in g. 2. Secured to one side of the tub is the rack C, in which the spring-lever I catches, and not only holds the bottom B in place, pressing the clothes firmly against the roller, but also allows the end of the bottom B to adapt itself to the thickness of the clothes between that and the said roller. By running the lever forward, the clothes will be pressed more firmly between the rollergand bottoms B, and the spring-lever still.

allow the bottom B to be ,depressed by the pressure of the clothes. G is a. cover to .prevent the water from being thrown out, when the machine is in operation. y The-roller C is not intended to make whole revolutions, or revolve, but to turn back and forth as a rubber, and is operated, as stated, by the cra-nk Fand wheels D E. If thought desirable, the bottoms B can be made corrugated as the rubber C.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is t The adjustable bottom B and spring-lever I, as 4arranged in combination with the roller C, in the manner substantially as deseribed.- i

LEWIS VAUGHAN.

Witnesses.:

PETER DAVIS, Jr.,- Gaonen DAvIs. 

